Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-12-31
HAIR OIL AND HAIR DYE.
Few Men Use Them SOwadays-Gray
 Hair Rather Fashionable

Hair Rather Fashionable.
 'sVery few men want oil on their hair nowadays" T" said a barber Co a reporter. "A few years ago the man who didn't use hair oil was the exception; now the man who does Use it is the exception. or course we are glad of the change in taste, for it is money in our pockets. Five years ago had to have a fresh supply of oil twice a week; now the same quantity will last me O month"
 sIIow about dyeing the hair and beards" the reporter asked.
 ''There has been a greater falling off in the Use of dye than in the use of hair oil, the barber continued. A few years ago there was a large class of gay old fellows who dyed their hair and whiskers almost as regularly as they shaved. Most of these men were more or less inclined to be sports OF beaus and always wanted 10 look as young as possible. Others, how ever, were respectable and steady going citizens and business men, who gave in to their vanity enough to want to keep look ing young. There was a large class Ot out and out gamblers and sharpers, who seemed tO have an idea it was out of keep ing with their profession to have anything but jet black whiskers and mustaches. So that nearly all gamblers or sports who had red or sandy hair on their face, or on their head, for that matter, used to have it dyed regularly as black as they could get it. A few of these are still around town. It's easy enough to tell them, because their eyebrows don't match the rest of the hair on their face.'
 ''SO you don't have much use for hair dye nOwadays," the reporter interrogated, to keep up the flow of tOnsOrial reminis- cences and reflections, which, contrary to. the traditions of the craft, seemed to show signs of drying up.
 No, indeed. When C man comes along now and asks to have his mustache or hair dyed. he usually catches us unpre- pared, and if We have any dye on hand at all it generally takes a good while to hunt it up and get the bottle dusted off I think we have only one regular customer in that line now, and he isn't an old man, either. He is a young fellow, whose hair IS black, or nearly black, while his eye brOws and beard are sandy. He has his whiskers and eyebrows dyed to match his hair, regularly twice a montE.
 But young men don't seem to care nowadays if their hair and beard are gray. In fact. they seem Co be rather proud of 1t. When they really begin to grow old that Is, when they get within few laps of JO-they get sensitive about it, how ever, and if they are not bald frequently inquire as to the means for preventing the hair from turning gray, etc.
 ''Oh, yes, a great many men use cos metic on their muStaches," the barber continued, in response to a suggestion. Tn fact. there are very few who don't use it. Some time ago most men wouldn't let a barber put any powder on their faces after shaving. Now nearly all ask for it. It's Imaginable how particular some men are about their hair. No matter how much care the barber takes about comb ing and brushing it they are never satis- fled, but always insist on taking the comb and brush themselves and arrang- ing it just so, with every hair lying in R certain position. n.'-WashingtOn Star.